Curling Canada has confirmed the two pools that will battle for…..

the Canadian women’s curling championship in February, with the countdown to the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts already underway with playdowns over.

Once more, the eighteen-team field will be divided into two pools of nine, with an eight-game round robin to start. The top three teams from each group move on to the six-team playoff after round-robin play.

Earlier this month, Nunavut said that they would not be fielding a team in the Tournament of Hearts this year.

This year’s Scotties will not use tiebreakers; instead, playoff berths will be determined by head-to-head results and, if necessary, Last-Shot Draw rankings.

The top team in Pool A will play the top team in Pool B in the playoffs, and vice versa. The losers of these games play the third-place finishers for a position in the 3 vs. 4 game, while the victors go to the page playoff 1 vs. 2 game.

The gold-medal game is scheduled for Sunday, February 25, and competition from the WinSport Event Centre in Calgary will start on Friday, February 16.

The pools and team lineups are shown below:

puddle A

3. The Canadian team, (Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Reid Carruthers, Briane Harris, Krysten Karwacki, Gimli, Man.) Kerri Einarson

4. Manitoba-Lawes, Kaitlyn Lawes (Jocelyn Peterman, Connor Njegovan, Stephanie Njegovan, and Kristin MacCuish; Winnipeg)

5. Alberta, Selena Sturmay (Janelle Schmiemann, Ted Appelman, Dezaray Hawes, Paige Papley)

8. Brown, Corryn Brown, British Columbia (Kamloops; Erin Pincott, Jenn Armstrong, Sam Fisher, Jim Cotter)

9. Skylar Ackerman, Saskatchewan (Patrick Ackerman, Saskatoon; Ashley Thevenot, Taylor Stremick, Kaylin Skinner, Amber Holland)

12. The region of Northern Ontario Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, Ontario; Andrea Kelly, Kendra Lilly, Ashley Sippala, Sarah Potts, Rick Lang)

13. Glenmore & Laval-sur-le-Lac, Quebec; Laurie St-Georges (Jamie Sinclair, Emily Riley, Kelly Middaugh, Marie-France Larouche).

16. Prince Edward Island, Jane DiCarlo (throws third stone), Sabrina Smith, Whitney Jenkins, Veronica Mayne (throws fourth stone), Crapaud

17. Newfoundland and Labrador, Stacie Curtis (Erica Curtis, Julie Hynes, Camille Burt, Jessica Wiseman, Eugene Trickett; St. John’s)

POOL B

1. Rachel Homan, Ontario-Homan (Don Bartlett, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown, Ottawa)

2. Manitoba-Jones, Jennifer Jones (Emily Zacharias, Winnipeg/Altona; Karlee Burgess, Winnipeg/Altona; Lauren Lenentine, Glenn Howard, throws third stones)

6. Ontario-Inglis, Danielle Inglis (Calissa Daly, Steve Acorn, Kimberly Tuck, Kira Brunton, Cassandra de Groot, Ottawa)

7. Manitoba-Kay Cameron, Manitoba (Meghan Walter, Taylor McDonald, Mackenzie Zacharias, Mackenzie Elias)

10. Clancy Grandy, British Columbia (Vancouver, Lindsay Dubue, Sarah Loken, Kayla MacMillan)

11. Territories in the Northwest (Jo-Ann Rizzo throws fourth stones, Margot Flemming throws third stones, Sarah Koltun throws second stones, Shona Barbour, Kevin Koe; Yellowknife) Kerry Galusha throws lead stones.

14. The province of Nova Scotia (Jill Brothers [throws fourth stones], Marie Christianson, Erin Carmody, Taylour Stevens, Colleen Jones; Halifax) Heather Smith [throws third stones]

15. The province of New Brunswick (Jaclyn Crandall, Molli Ward, Kayla Russell, Kendra Lister, Alex Robichaud; Fredericton) Melissa Adams

18. Kevin Patterson, Helen Strong, Kerry Foster, Raelyn Helston, Kimberly Tuor, and Bayly Scoffin; Yukon, Whitehorse